On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Newman, Billy<billy.new...@itt.com> wrote: > I know this has been covered a number of time before but I am still confused. > > I am using all the default values for IndexWriter when writing my index. > > I loop over all my documents 1000 at a time. For each 1000 I open an index > writer, write each document, optimize the index, then close the index writer. > The problems comes about in the second 1000. Somewhere in writing the > second 1000 I start to get a Too many files open exception. What I don't > understand is why I can write the first 1000 with no problem, optimize and > close the writer and then have a problem the next time around. > > As an aside I am running redhat and I run 'limit descriptor' and see that it > is set to 1024. Anyone have any idea if this is to low or if there is a > recommended value?
1024 is too low. For a desktop machine too! So increase it. R. -- Roberto Franchini http://www.celi.it http://www.blogmeter.it http://www.memesphere.it Tel +39-011-6600814 jabber:ro.franch...@gmail.com skype:ro.franchini --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
